Prisoners in 1980 - Bureau of Justice Statistics
u.s. Department of Justice
Bureau of Justice Statistics
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During 1980 more than 15,000 inmates were added to the rolls of the Nation's correctional institutions, continuing an upward trend stretching bacK for more than a decade.! As correctional authorities coped with a record yearend total of 329,122 inmates, 28 States and the District of Columbia were under court orders to
reduce overcrowding, and 16 States had
a backlog of sentenced prisoners waitf" ing in local jails for space in State ',j facilities. The 1980 increase in the
u- prisoner population was 5 percent, more
than double the increases of the two
I
With this report the Bureau of Justice Statistics introduces Bulletin readers to statistics from the National Prisoner Statistics (N PS) program. NPS series, which are among the oldest in the criminal
justice field, contain annual data on the prison populations, prison admis-
sions and releases, characteristics of the death row population, and executions.
:Vlay 1981
These data are collected annually for the Bureau of Justice Statistics by the U.S. Census l~ureau from the departments of corrections in the 50 States and the District of Columbia. The cooperation of State officials, whose generous assistance and unfailing pa tience llluke the National Prisoner Statistics program possible, is gratefully acknowledged.
l3enjalllin fI. Renshaw III Acting Director
previous years. Since the uptrend
began in 1969, the number of prisoners held in the United States has increased by 61 percent, and the incarceration rate for sentenced prisoners has gone from 98 per 100,000 U.S. resident population to 140 per 100,000.
The 1980 gain in prison popUlation was limited to State facilities. The number of prisoners under the jurisdiction of Federal authorities fell by almost 8 percent to 24,363, continuing H. decline begun in 1978 that has reduded
large part from a decision by Federal law enforcement uuthorities to concentrate their resources on whi tecollar crime, leaving the apprehension, pr'osecution, and confinement of bank robbers, interstate auto thieves, and
the Federal prison population by
certain drug offenders to State and
lUata in ttlis reIJ,;rt arp prdilllInar:v ;Hld "'l.lhj?,~l?t to
one-fourth in 3 years. It results in
local authori ties.
reVbwn.
}Iany factors in the speeding up of
prison population growth during 1980
Number of sentenced State and Federal prisoners at yearend, 1925-80
are peculiar to individual States. Sentencing legislation passed on a
'.
widespread basis in recent years
(thousunds)
appears, however, to oe exerting
pressure on the capacities of State
:!tiO
prison systems. During the past
330
4 years, 37 States have passed man-
:wo
datory sentencing statutes and 15
270
States have passed determinate
~~U
sentencing laws. While determinate
210
sentencing allows for the possibility of
180
probation, restitution, or suspended
1;0
sentences, and mandatory sentencing
i'lO
does not, each sends the offender to
~O
prison for a fixed number of years that
tlU
cannot be shortened by parole.
30
0 1925
193()
l!nn
In most States mandatory and determinate sentencing has been aimed at
~ote: Prior to 1!:J79) NPS reports WerE' tnl'lied on thf~ custody population. Heginrung in una, fop us it.; on
Ow JurhfhetlOn popuhttfcm. Hotn l\~ures 'i~e ~tl'}wn f"r IH;7 trJ f;j{?lht;lt ................
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